01 02 What is masculinity? Looked at across time - from antiquity to the modern day - the contours of 'manliness' take on an intriguing complexity. As the various contributors to this volume demonstrate, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied considerably over time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, one not available to all men, and one sometimes even applied to certain women. By looking at masculinity over time, this ground-breaking book presents a variety of new perspectives on the nature of masculinity, its social and political functions, and the methods by which historians and others might seek to analyse it. Each author provides both a case study of what 'masculinity' means (or fails to mean) in a specific historical moment, and contributes to a wider collective analysis of the changing historical dynamics to male identity. Overall, the book provides a key methodological landmark in the study of gender history. 04 02 Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.H.Arnold  & S.Brady PART I: PARADIGMS AND NOMENCLATURE The History of Masculinity: an Outdated Concept?; J.Tosh Can the Hegemon Speak? Reading Masculinity through Anthropology; D.F.Janssen The Whig Interpretation of Masculinity? Honour and Sexuality in Late Medieval Manhood; C.Fletcher Masculinity without Conflict: Noblemen in Eighth and Ninth-Century Francia; R.Stone PART II: MASCULINITY AND HEGEMONY Masculinities in Early Hellenistic Athens; H.Berg Masculinity as a World Historical Category of Analysis; S.Yarrow Hegemonic Masculinities? Assessing Change and Process of Change in Elite Masculinity, 1700-1900; H.French   &  M.Rothery Masculinity and Fatherhood in England c. 1760-1830; J.Bailey PART III: MATURING AND ADULTHOOD Athenian Pederasty and the Construction of Masculinity; T.K.Hubbard An Orchard, a Love Letter, and Three Bastards: the Formation of Adult Male Identity in a Fifteenth-Century Family; R.E.Moss 'To make a Man without Reason': Examining Manhood and Manliness in Early Modern England; J.Jordan 'Boys, Semi-Men and Bearded Scholars': Maturity and Manliness in early Nineteenth-Century Oxford; H.Ellis PART IV: DOMESTICITIES St. Francis of Assisi and the Making of Settlement Masculinity, 1883-1914; L.Matthews-Jones Homes Fit for Homos: Joe Orton, Masculinity, and the Domesticated Queer; M.Cook Three Faces of Fatherhood as a Masculine Category: Tyrants, Teachers, and Workaholics as 'Responsible Family Men' during Canada's Baby Boom; R.Rutherdale PART V: MODERN FRONTIERS Cow Boys, Cattle Men, and Competing Masculinities on the Texas Frontier; J.M.Moore Valorising Samurai Masculinity through Biblical Language: Christianity, Oscar Wilde, and Natsume Soseki's novel Kokoro ; K.Miyazaki 'Proper Government and Discipline': Family Religion and Masculine Authority in Nineteenth-Century Canada; N.Christie Punters and their Prostitutes: British Soldiers, Masculinity, and maisons tolérées in the First World War; C.Makepeace Conclusion Masculinities, Histories, and Memories; V.Jeleniewski Seidler 13 02 JOHN H. ARNOLD is Professor of Medieval History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He works on various aspects of medieval culture and modern historiography. SEAN BRADY is Lecturer in Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. He is an historian of modern British history and his Masculinity and Male Homosexuality in Britain, 1861-1913 has been internationally influential on the field. Both he and John H. Arnold are convening editors of Palgrave Macmillan's series 'Genders and Sexualities in History'. 19 02 Cutting-edge original theories regarding the dynamics of masculine identity Comparative across a broad period of time Arranged thematically, rather than chronologically, for ease of use in teaching 02 02 Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'. 31 02 A collection of ground-breaking chapters on the history of masculinity, presenting new methodological and interpretative approaches across historical periods